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UULES 


THE   SEIST  ATE. 


T.  The  president  having  taken  the  Chair,  and  a  quorum 
being  present,  the  Journal  of  the  preceding  day  shall  be 
read,  and  anj^  mistakes  in  the  entries  shall,  «pou  motion, 
then  be  corrected. 

II.  No  Senator  shall  speak  to  another,  or  otherwise 
interrupt  the  business  of  the  Senate  while  the  Journals  or 
public  papers  are  being  read,  or  when  any  Senator  is 
Kpeaking  in  debate. 

III.  Every  Senator,  when  he  speaks,  shall  address  the 
(,'hair,  standing  in  his  place,  and  when  he  has  finished 
shall  sit  down. 

IV.  No  Senator  shall  speak  more  than  twice  in  any  one 
debate,  on  the  same  question  and  on  the  same  day,  with- 
out leave  of  a  majority  of  the  Senators  present. 

V.  When  two  or  more  Senators  rise  at  the  same  time, 
the  President  shall  name  the  one  to  speak,  but  in  all  cases 
the  Senator  who  shall  first  rise  and  address  the  Chair  shall 
speak  first. 

VI.  The  President  shall  preserve  order  and  decorum ; 
may  speak  to  points  of  order  in  preference  to  any  Senator 
rising  from  his  seat  for  that  purpose;  and  shall  decide 
questions  of  order,  subject  to  an  appeal,  by  any  Senator, 


to  the  decision  of  the  Senate ;  he  may  also  take  the  sense 
of  the  Senate  on  any  question  of  order  at  his  own  instance; 
and  may  call  any  Senator  to  the  Chair,  to  preside  tem- 
porarily, not  to  extend  beyond  ihat  day's  session. 

VII.  The  duties  and  powers  of  the  President  'pro  tern- 
iporey  when  occupying  the  Chair,  shall  be  the  same  as 
those  of  the  President,  in  these  rules  specified. 

VIII.  When  any  Senator  is  called  to  order  by  the 
President  or  any  Senator,  he  shall  sit  down,  and  shall  not 
proceed  without  leave  of  the  Senate ;  and  every  question 
of  order  shall  be  decided  by  the  President  without  debate, 
subject  to  an  appeal  to  the  body. 

IX.  If  any  Senator  be  called  to  order  by  another  Sena 
tor,  for  words  spoken,  the  exceptionable  words  spoken 
shall  immediately  be  taken  down  in  writing,  that  the  Pres- 
ident may  be  better  able  to  judge  the  matter. 

X.  No  Senator  shall,  in  debate,  use  any  language  reflect 
ing  injuriously  upon  the  character,  motives,  honor  or 
integrity  of  any  other  Senator. 

XI.  No  motion  shall  be  debated  until  the  same  shali 
receive  a  second,  and  when  a  motion  shall  be  made  and 
seconded,  it  shall  be  reduced  to  writing,  if  desired  by  the 
President  or  any  Senator,  delivered  in  at  the  table,  and 
read,  before  the  same  shall  be  debated. 

XII.  Any  motion  or  proposition  may  be  withdrawn  by 
the  mover  at  any  time  before  a  decision,  amendment  or 
other  action  of  the  Senate  upon  it,  except  a  motion  to 
reconsider,  which  shall  not  be  withdrawn  without  leave  of 
the  body. 

XIII.  When  a  question  has  been  once  made  and  carried 
in  the  affirmative  or  negative,  a  motion  to  reconsider  shall 
J)e  entertained  at  the  instance  of  any  Senator,  if  made 
X)n  the  same  day  on  which  the  vote  was  taken,  or  within 


the  next  two  days  of  actual  session.  When  a  motion  to 
reconsider  shall  be  made,  its  consideration  shall  take  pre. 
cedence  of  the  regular  order  of  business,  unless  a  majority 
of  the  Senators  present  shall  otherwise  determine. 

XIV.  When  a  question  is  under  debate,  no  motion 
(except  one  to  reconsider  some  other  question  passed  upon) 
shall  be  received,  but  to  adjourn;  to  lie  on  the  table;  to 
postpone  indefinitely;  to  postpone  to  a  day  certain;  to 
commit  or  amend ;  which  several  motions  shall  have  pre- 
cedence in  the  order  they  stand  arranged,  and  the  motion 
to  adjourn  shall  alwaj^s  be  in  order  and  decided  without 
debate;  but  a  motion  to  reconsider  shall  be  received  and 
entered,  if  made  after  a  motion  to  adjourn  and  before  it 
is  decided. 

XV.  If  the  question  for  decision  contains  several  parts, 
jtny  Senator  may  have  the  same  divided ;  but  on  a  motion 
to  strike  out  and  insert,  it  shall  not  be  in  order  to  move 
for  a  division  of  the  question  ;  and  the  rejection  of  a 
motion  to  strike  out  and  insert  one  proposition  shall  not 
prevent  a  motion  to  strike  out  and  insert  a  different  propo- 
sition, nor  prevent  a  subsequent  motion  simply  to  strike 
out,  nor  shall  the  rejection  of  a  motion  simply  to  strikeout 
prevent  a  subsequent  motion  to  strike  out  and  insert. 

XVI.  In  filling  up  blanks,  the  largest  sum  and  the 
longest  time  shall  be  first  put. 

XVII.  The  unfinished  business  in  which  the  Senate 
may  be  engaged,  on  adjournment,  shall  be  the  first  busi- 
ness in  order  on  the  next  day's  sitting. 

XVIII.  After  the  Journal  is  read,  and  the  unfinished 
business,  if  any,  of  the  previous  day's  sitting  is  disposed 
of,  the  regular  order  of  business  shall  be  as  follows  : 

1st.  The  call  of  the  States  alphabetically  for  memorial^?, 
or  any  matter,  measure,   resolution,   bill,  or  proposition 


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wliicli  any  Senator  may  desire  to  bring  before  the  Sen- 
ate. 

2.  The  call  of  Committees  for  reports — the  call  of 
Connuittees  to  be  uiade  in  the  order  of  their  appointment 
— «,uch  reports  of  Committees  as  may  not  be  otherwise 
ui?p('sed  of  when  made,  as  well  as  all  bills  and  resolutions 
introduced  by  individual  Senators,  not  si?nilarly  disposed 
of,  shall  be  numbered  in  the  order  in  which  they  are  pre- 
sented, and  be  placed  in  that  order  on  the  Calendar  of  the 
re^^ular  orders  of  the  dyy.  The  call  of  Committees  or 
States  each  day  to  be  resumed  where  it  may  be  left  off 
the  day  preceding. 

3d.  The  Calendar  of  the  regular  orders  of  the  day  shall 
then  be  taken  up,  and  every  resolution,  proposition,  bill  or 
measure  shall  bo  disposed  of  in  the  order  in  which  it 
there  stands.  No  special  order  shall  be  made  against  this 
rale  except  by  a  vote  of  a  majority  of  Senators  present, 
and  such  majority  may  at  any  time  change  the  order  of 
business. 

XIX.  Executive  messages,  communications  from  the 
heads  of  Departments,  as  well  as  messages  and  bills  from 
the  House  of  Ilepresentatives,  shall  be  disposed  of  in 
the  order  in  which  they  may  be  respectively  received,  at 
such  time  as  a  majority  of  the  Senators  present  may 
direct. 

XX.  Every  resolution,  bill  or  mc:k>ure  requiring  tlie 
conrurrent  action  of  both  Houses  of  (Jongress  shall  receive 
three  readings  previous  to  its  being  put  upon  its  passage. 
The  President  .^hall  give  notice  at  each  reading  whether 
it  be  the  first,  second  or  third  reading.  No  such  resolu- 
tion, bill  or  measure  shall  be  committed  or  amended  until 
it  shall  have  been  twice  read,  after  which  it  may  be  sub- 
ject to  a  motion  to  amend  or  to  reier  to  a  Ccmmittee.     And 


all  such  matters,  on  second  readinp;,  shall  first  be  consiJ-" 
ered  by  the  Senate  in  the  same  manner  as  if  the  Senate 
were  in  Committee  of  the  Whole.  The  final  question  on 
the  second  reading  of  any  matter  not  referred  to  Coramif- 
tee  shall  be  ^*  whether  it  shall  be  engrossed  and  read  a 
third  time  ?  "  and  no  amendment  shall  be  received  aftci- 
the  engrossment  for  a  third  reading  has  been  orderci. 
But  it  shall  at  \11  times  be  in  order,  before  the  final  pass- 
age or  action  on  any  matter,  to  move  its  commitment,  and 
should  such  commitment  take  place,  and  any  amendment 
he  reported  by  the  Committee,  the  whole  shall  again  be 
read  a  second  time,  and  considered  as  in  Committee  of 
the  Whole,  and  then  the  aforesaid  question  shall  again  be 
put. 

XXI.  After  any  matter  is  ordered  to  be  engrossed,  und 
it  has  been  road  a  third  time,  the  question  shall  be,  ^*  Shall 
the  resolution  (or  the  matter,  whatever  it  may  be,)  n'nv 
pass?'^ 

XXII.  A  majority  of  the  Senate  may  dispense  wilK 
the  actual  engrossment  of  the  bill  befjre  it  is  put  on  it.s 
f>assage. 

XXIII.  All  bills  and  joint  resolutions  on  the  first  and 
second  reading  may  be  read  by  the  title,  unless  the  read- 
ing of  the  whole  shall  be  desired  by  a  majority  of  Jbe 
Senators  present,  and  the  third  reading  of  the  engrOc>so'i 
bill  shall  be  by  the  title. 

XXIV.  The  titles  of  resolutions,  bills,  and  other  mat- 
ters {submitted,  and  such  parts  thereof  only  as  may  bo 
affected  by  proposed  amendments,  shall  be  interred  on  ibo 
Jousnals. 

XXV.  No  motion  for  the  previous  question  sht^li  Ic 
entertained  but  upon  the  call  of  any  Senator  for  the  qut's- 
tion,  if  seconded  by  a  majority  of  the  Senator.s  present, 


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the  vote  ehall  immediately  be  taken  on  the  pending  ques- 
tion, whatever  it  may  be,  without  further  debate. 

XXVI.  A  motioL  to  lay  any  amendment  on  the  table 
prevailing,  shall  carry  with  it  only  the  amendment,  and 
not  the  original  proposition  or  matter. 

XXVII.  No  Senator  shall  absent  himself  from  the  ser- 
vice of  the  Senate  without  leave  of  the  Senate  first 
obtained,  and  a  majority  of  the  Senators  present  at  any 
time,  are  hereby  authorized  to  send  the  Sergeant-at-Arms, 
or  any  other  person  or  persons  by  them  named,  for  any  or 
all  absent  Senators,  at  the  expense  of  such  absent  Senator 
or  Senators,  unless  such  excuse  for  non-attendance  shall  be 
made  as  the  Senate  may  judge  sufficient,  and  in  that  case 
the  expense  shall  be  paid  out  of  the  contingent  fund. 
This  rule  to  apply  as  well  to  the  first  convention  of  the 
Senate,  at  the  legal  time  of  meeting,  as  to  each  day  of  the 
session  after  the  hour  has  arrived  to  which  the  Senate  may 
Bt'ind  adjourned, 

XXVIII.  When  the  yeas  and  nays  shall  be  called  for 
by  one-fifth  of  the  Senators  present,  each  Senator  called 
upon  shall  declare  openly  and  without  debate  his  assent  or 
dissent  to  the  question,  unless  for  special  reason  he  be 
excused  by  the  Senate.  In  taking  the  yeas  and  nays,  and 
upon  a  call  of  the  Senate,  the  names  of  the  Senators  shall 
be  taken  alphabetically. 

XXIX.  When  the  yeas  and  nays  shall  be  taken  upon 
any  question  in  pursuance  of  the  above  rule,  no  Senator 
shall  be  permitted,  except  by  the  unanimous  consent  of 
the  Senate,  to  vote  after  the  decision  is  announced  from 
the  Chair. 

XXX.  Vv'hen  the  Senators  arc  equally  divided  on  any 
question,  the  Secretary  shall  take  the  decision  of  the  Pres- 
ident. 


XXXI.  The  following  standiDg  committees  shall  be 
appointed  at  the  beginning  of  each  Congress,  with  leave 
to  report  by  bill  or  otherwise. 

A  Committee  on  Foreign  Relations,  to  consist  of  five 
members. 

A  Committee  on  Finance,  to  consist  of  five  members. 

A  Committee  on  Commerce,  to  consist  of  five  members. 

A  Committee  on  Military  Afiairs  and  Militia,  to  consist 
of  five  members. 

A  Committe  on  Naval  Affairs,  to  consist  of  five  mem- 
bers. 

A  Committee  on  the  Judiciary,  to  consist  of  five  mem- 
bers. 

A  Committee  on  Indian  Affairs,  to  consist  of  five  mem- 
bers. 

A  Committee  on  Post  Offices  and  Post  Roads,  to  consist 
of  five  members. 

A  Committee  on  Public  Lands,  to  consist  of  three  mem- 
bers. 

A  Committee  on  Patents  and  Patent  Office,  to  consist  of 
three  members. 

A  Committe3  on  Claims,  to  consist  of  three   members. 

A  Committee  on  Territories,  to  consist  of  three  mem- 
bers. 

A  Committee  on  Accounts,  to  consist  of  three  members, 
to  whom  shall  be  referred  all  resolutions  directing  the 
payment  of  money  out  of  the  contingent  fund  of  the 
Senate,  or  creating  a  charge  on  the  same. 

A  Committee  on  Printing,  to  consist  of  three  members^ 

A  Committee  on  Engrossment  and  Enrollment,  to  con.- 
sist  of  three  members. 

XXXII.  In  the  apppointment  of  the  standing  com= 
mitteea,  the  Senate  shall  proceed   by  ballot  severally  to» 


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appoint  tlie  enairmrtn  of  each  committee,  and  iLen  hy  one 
■ballot  the  oilier  members  necessary  to  complete  ti>e  same, 
and  a  majority  of  all  the  votes  given  shall  be  necessary  to 
■a' choice  of  a  chairman  of  a  standing  committee. 

XXXITI.  When  motions  are  made  for  reference  of  tho, 
«ame  subject  to  a  select  committee  and  to  a  standing  com- 
twittee,  the  question  on  reference  to  the  standing  committee 
shall  be  first  put. 

XXX£V.  All  confidential  communications  made  by  the 
President  of  the  Confederate  States  to  the  Senate  shall 
be  by  the  Senators  kept  secret,  and  all  treaties  which  may 
be  laid  before  the  Senate  shall  also  be  kept  secret  until 
the  Senate  shall,  by  their  resolution,  take  off  the  injunc- 
tion of  secrecy. 

XXXV.  All  the  information  or  remarks  in  the  Senate, 
touching  or  concerning  the  character  or  qualifications  of 
any  person  nominated  by  the  President  to  ojfice,  shall  be 
kept  a  secretj  except  to  the  person  involved,  or,  in  his 
sbseuce,  to  his  agent  or  friend,  but  in  no  event  shall  the 
name  of  a  Senator,  making  charges  or  remarks  be  disclosed, 
under  penalty  of  expulsion. 

XXXVI.  When  acting  on  confidential  or  executive 
Ijusincss,  the  Senate  shall  be  cleared  of  all  persons  except 
the  Secretary  and  his  assistants,  the  Sergeant-at-Arms, 
the  Dojr- Keeper  and  the  Assistant  Door- Keeper;  all  of 
•p?h?ch  officers  shall  take  an  oath,  to  be  administered  by 
the  President  of  the  Senate,  not  to  divah;e  or  disclose  any 
matter  or  thing  coming  to  their  knowledge  within  the 
Fecret  session  of  the  Senate. 

XX XVII.  The  legislative  proceedings,  the  executive 
proceedings,  and  ih.e  confidential  legislative  proceedings 
f.haU  be  kept  in  separate  and  divtinct  books. 

XXXVIII.  The  President  of  the  Confederate  States 


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shall,  from  time  to  time,  he  furnished  with  an  autheRti 
catcd  transcript  of  the  executive  records  of  the  Senate, 
and  all  nominations  approved  or  definitely  acted  on  by  the 
Senate,  shall  be  returned  bj  the  Secretary  from  day  to 
day,  as  such  proceedings  may  occur,  but  no  further  extract 
from  the  executive  journal  shall  be  furnished  except  by 
special  order,  and  no  paper  except  original  treaties  trans 
milted  to  the  Senate  by  the  President  of  the  Confederate- 
States,  or  any  executive  officer,  shall  be  returned  or  deliv- 
ered from  the  office  of  the  Secretary,  without  an  order  of 
the  Senate  for  that  purpose.  , 

XXXIX.  Messages  shall  be  sent  to  the  House  of  Rep- 
resentatives by  the  Secretary  or  his  assistant. 

XL.  Messages  shall  be  received  in  any  state  of  busi- 
ness, except  where  a  question  is  being  put,  while  the  yeas 
and  nays  are  being  called,  or  while  the  bullois  are  being 
counted. 

XLI.  No  motion  shall  be  deemed  in  order,  to  admit 
any  person  or  person'^  whatsoever,  within  the  doors  of  the 
Senate  Chamber  to  present  any  petition,  memorial  o.r 
address,  or  to  hear  any  such  read. 

XLII.  Stenographers  and  reporters  for  the  press,  wish- 
ing to  take  down  the  proceedings  of  the  Senate,  may  be 
admitted  by  the  President,  who  shall  assign  to  them  such 
places  on  the  floor  to  effect  their  object  as  shall  not  inter- 
fere with  the  convenience  of  the  Senators. 

XIjIII.  On  motion  made  by  any  Senator,  seconded  by 
another,  to  close  the  doors  on  ihe  presentation  or  discus- 
sion of  any  matter  which  may,  in  the  opinion  of  such 
Senator,  require  secrecy,  the  President  shall  direct  the 
do(,rs  to  be  closed,  and,  upon  the  doors  being  closed,  a 
voie  shall  be  taken  as  to  whether  the  matter  in  hand  shall 
be  d.;i)atod  and  determined  in  secret  session  or  not,  and  a 


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majority  shall  decide  the  question,  and,  during  the  dis- 
cussion of  such  question  in  secret  session,  no  one  shall  be 
permitted  to  remain  within  the  Senate  Chamber  but  the 
President,  the  Senators,  and  the  officers  of  the  body,  as  in 
case  of  executive  session. 

XLIV.  Any  officer  or  Senator,  convicted  of  disclosing 
any  matter  directed  by  the  body  to  be  held  in  confidence, 
shall  be  liable,  if  an  officer,  to  dismissal  from  service,  and 
in  case  of  a  Senator,  to  suffer  expulsion  from  the  body. 

XLV.  All  motions  to  print  extra  copies  of  any  bill, 
report,  or  other  document,  shall  be  referred  to  the  Com- 
mittee on  Printing. 

XL VI.  During  the  existence  of  war,  all  propositions 
affecting  our  foreign  relations,  or  relating  to  the  public 
defence,  shall  be  submitted  and  acted  on  in  secret  session, 
unless  otherwise  ordered  by  a  majority  of  the  Senate. 

XLVII.  All  cases  that  may  arise  in  the  proceedings  of 
the  Senate,  not  provided  for  in  the  foregoing  rules,  shall 
be  governed  by  the  general  principles  of  parliamentary 
law,  as  laid  down  in  Jefferson's  Manual. 

XLVIII.  The  rules  may  be  amended  by  a  majority  of 
Senators,  on  one  day's  notice  being  given. 

XLTX.  The  President  pro  tempore  of  the  Senate  shall 
retain  his  right  as  a  member  to  vote  upon  all  questions. 

L.  The  Senator  who  may  be  chosen  President  pro 
tempore  of  the  Senate  shall  hold  and  exercise  the  right 
and  duties  of  that  office  until  the  beginning  of  a  new 
Congress  and  election  of  his  successor. 


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JOINT  RULES  AND   ORDERS 

OF   THE 

TWO  HOUSES     . 

OF    THE 

DOIFEDERATE  COIGRESS 


I.  In  every  case  of  an  amendment  of  a  bill  agreed  to 
in  one  House  and  dissented  to  in  the  other,  if  either 
House  shall  request  a  conference,  and  appoint  a  committee 
for  that  purpose,  and  the  other  House  shall  also  appoint  a 
committee  to  confer,  such  committees  shall,  at  a  convenient 
hour,  to  be  agreed  upon  by  their  chairman,  meet  in  the 
Conference  Chamber,  and  state  to  each  other,  verbally  or 
in  writing,  as  either  shall  choose,  the  reasons  of  their 
respective  Houses  for  and  against  the  amendment,  and 
confer  freely  thereon. 

II.  When  a  message  shall  be  sent  from  the  Senate  to 
the  House  of  Representatives,  it  shall  be  announced  at 
the  door  of  the  House  by  the  Door-Keeper,  and  shall  be 
respectfully  communicated  to  the  Chair  by  the  person  by 
whom  it  may  be  sent. 

III.  The  same  ceremony  shall  be  observed  when  a  mes- 
senger shall  be  sent  from  the  House  of  Representatives  to 
the  Senate. 

IV.  Messages  shall  be  sent  by  the  Secretary  or  Clerk  of 
either  House,  or  their  assistants,  or  by  a  member. 


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V.  While  bills  are  on  their  passap;e  between  the  two 
Houses,  they  shall  be  on  paper,  and  under  the  signature 
of  the  Secretary  or  Clerk  of  each  House,  respectively. 

VI.  After  a  bill  shall  have  passed  both  Houses,  it  shall 
be  duly  enrolled  on  parchment  or  paper,  by  the  Clerk  of 
the  House  of  Representatives,  or  the  Secretary  of  the 
Senate,  as  the  bill  may  have  originated  in  the  one  or  the 
other  House,  before  it  shall  be  presented  to  the  President 
of  the  Confederate  States. 

VII.  When  bills  are  enrolled,  they  shall  be  examined 
by  a  Joint  Committee  of  three  from  the  Senate  and  three 
from  the  House  of  llcpresentatives,  appointed  as  a  Stand- 
ing Committee  for  that  purpose,  who  shall  carefully  com- 
pare the  enrolment  with  the  engrossed  bills,  as  passed  in 
the  two  Houses,  and  correcting  any  errors  that  may  be 
discovered  in  the  enrolled  bills,  and  make  their  report 
forthwith  to  their  respective  Houses. 

VIIT.  After  examination  and  report,  each  bill  shall  be 
aigned  in  the  respective  Houses,  first  by  the  Speaker  of 
the  House  of  Representatives,  then  by  the  President  of 
the  Senate. 

IX.  After  a  bill  shall  have  been  thus  signed  in  each 
Bouse,  it  shall  be  presented,  by  the  Secretary  of  the 
Senate,  to  the  President  of  the  Confederate  States,  for  his 
^approbation,  (it  being  first  endorsed  on  the  back  of  the 
roll,  certifying  in  which  House  the  same  originated,  which 
endorsement  shall  be  signed  by  the  Secretary  or  Clerk,  as 
the  case  may  be,  of  the  House  in  which  the  same  origi- 
nated,) and  shall  be  entered  on  the  Journal  of  each  House. 
The  said  Secretary  shall  enter  upon  the  Journal  the  day  of 
presentation  to  the  President. 

X.  All  orders,  resolutions  and  votes,  which  are  to  be 
presented   to  the  President  of  the  Confederate  States  for 


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his  approbation,  shall  also,  in  the  same  mai>Rer,  be  pre- 
viously enrolled,  examined  aud  signed,  and  shjill  be  pre- 
sented in  the  same  manner  as  provided  in  the  caee  of 
bills. 

XI.  Wiien  ci  bill  or.resolution  which  shall  have  passed 
in  one  House  is  rejeeted- in  the  other,  notice  thereof  shall 
be  given  to  the  Hou^e  in  which  the  same  shall  have 
passed .  ^'^y^  -_- i};<^^t- 

XII.  When  a'laill  oi"  resolution  which  has  been  passed 
in  one  House  shall  be  rejected  in  the  other,  it  shall  not  be 
brought  in  during  the  same  session,  without  a  notice  of 
two  days,  and  leave  of  two-thirds  of  that  Plouse  in  which 
it  shall  be  renewed. 

XIII.  Each  House  shall  transmit  to  the  other  all  papery 
on  which  any  bill  or  resolution  shall  be  founded. 

XIA^.  After  each  House  shall  have  adhered%to  their 
disagreement,  a  bill  or  resolution  shall  be  lost. 

XV.  No  spirituous  liquors  shall  be  offered  for  sale,  or 
exhibited  within  any  of  the  rooms  appropriated  for  the 
use  of  the  Confederate  Congress. 

XVI.  After  the  comraencement  of  the  second  or  sub- 
sequent session  of  Congress,  bills  resolutions  or  reports, 
which  originated  in  either  House,  aud  at  the  close  of  the 
next  preceding  session  remained  undetermined  in  either 
House,  may  be  resumed,  on  motion,  and  acted  on  in  the 
same  manner  as  if  an  adjournment  had  not  taken  place. 

XVII.  The  enacting  words  of  all  bills  shall  be  ^^  The 
Concjrcss  of  the  Coiifcderate  States  of  America  do  cjiact," 
and  of  all  joint  resolutions — ^^  Resolved  hij  the  Congress 
of  the  Confederate  States  of  America." 

XVIII.  Members  of  either  House  shall  be  admitted  to 
the  floor  of  the  other  House  when  in  secret  legislative 
session. 


APPENIllX. 


Resolution  I.  Rrsolrcd  h/y  the  JScnafe  and  House  of 
Representatives,  That  the  members  of  the  two  Houses 
may  confer  with  each  other,  confidentially,  upon  measures 
which  have  been,  or  are,  under  consideration  in  secret 
legislative  session  in  their  respective  bodies.  [Journal 
March  8,  18G2.] 

Resolution  IT.  Rf^oliid,  That  Senators  have  leave  to 
communicate,  confidentially,  with  the  President  and  heads 
of  Departments,  concerning  business  which  may  be  trans- 
acted in  secret  legislative  session.  [Journal  March  10, 
18G2.] 

Resolution  TIL  Resolved,  That  Rule  thirty-eight  does 
not  require  that  transcripts  of  the  entire  executive  record 
of  the  Senate  shall  be  furnished  the  President  of  the 
Confederate  States,  or  that  the  yeas  and  nays  on  nomina- 
tions, or  that  motions,  resolutions,  or  current  proceedings 
touching  nominations  should  be  sent  to  him;  but  that  the 
Constitution  contemplates  unreserved  confidence  between 
the  President  and  the  Senate  respecting  all  executive 
matters  before  the  Senate,  and  that,  therefore,  a  complete 
record  should  be  furnished  him  of  all  motions,  resolutions, 
yeas  and  nays,  or  proceedings  of  record  concerning  nomi- 
nations to  oflice  by  the  President,  as  well  as  treaties ;  and 
that  Senators  should  be  at  liberty  to  communicate  as  freely 
with  the  President  as  with  each  other  about  all  such  nom- 
inations and  treaties,  and  the  action  of  the  Senate  thereon. 


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That  Rules  thirty-four,  thirty-five  and  forty-four  forbid 
a  Senator  from  communicating  to  any  one  how  he  voted, 
or  how  any  other  Senator  voted  on  any  nomination  or 
treaty,  or  any  motion  or  resolution  relating  to  a  nomina- 
tion or  treaty  considered  in  executive  session,  or  commu- 
nicating to  any  one  his  own  speech  or  remarks,  or  that  of 
any  other  Senator  on  any  such  nomination  or  treaty,  or 
any  such  motion  or  resolution;  excepting  only  Senators, 
or  the  President  or  Vice-President  of  the  Confederate 
States,  in  respect  to  both  nominations  and  treaties,  and 
excepting  further,  that  information  or  remarks  touching 
the  character  or  qualifications  of  one  nominated  by  the 
President  to  office  may  be  told  him,  or,  in  his  absence, 
may  be  told  his  agent  or  friend,  without  disclosing  the 
name  of  the  Senator  making  the  charges  or  remarks.  And 
this  obligation  to  keep  secret  the  proceedings  in  executive 
session  remiins  in  full  force  until  the  injunction  of  secrecy 
has  been  removed  by  order  of  the  Senate.  But  any  Sen- 
ator may  disclose  the  confirmation  or  rejection  of  a  nomi- 
nation after  it  has  been  finally  acted  on  by  the  Senate, 
telling  only  the  result,  but  not  the  number  of  votes  for  or 
against  the  nominee,  or  by  whom  cast. 


